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Sony Licenses PlayStation Characters for Amiibo-Like Figures

Submitted by Kenneth Kwok on Mon, 01/22/2018 - 07:41

From PC Mag: Nintendo has made millions by combining additional content for its games with the sale of NFC-enabled figures of its most popular characters, sometimes taking things a little too far. Now it seems Sony is attempting to do the same, but decided linking figures to game content wasn't actually worth the effort.

A new range of PlayStation characters will be offered under the name Totaku (pronounced Toe-Tak-Oo). Sony is officially licensing the figures, each of which will cost $10, but ThinkGeek is handling production. The initial batch of Totaku figures includes Parappa the Rapper, Sackboy, Crash Bandicoot, The Hunter from Bloodborne, Wipeout's Feisar FX350, and Tekken 7's Heihachi Mishima.

There is no reason to own the Totaku figures beyond actually liking the characters. You're also going to be waiting a while to get them with a launch not happening until March 23. In the US, it looks as though GameStop will be the only place to grab them.

Each figure is 10cm (four-inches) tall, promises to be highly-detailed, but cannot be articulated. Each series is numbered as a way of encouraging you to collect them all. According to Destructoid, the bases can be interlocked, but it's unclear how that will work from the images we've seen.